SAP Note 27024 - MM-SRV: Setting up components (services)

Symptom:

In Release 3.0, the new services management functionality is available.
To use this functionality, you have to make various settings in the system.
This note describes the required Customizing settings.

Cause and prerequisites

In order to understand the settings, you must be familiar with the function "Compare with client 0" in the "Utilities" menu when maintaining the Customizing.
You have to decide whether the copied Customizing entries from client 0 meet your requirements. SAP nevertheless recommends to first copy the settings from client 0 and to adapt them, if required.

Solution

1. Setting up the intervals for the number ranges:

Path in SAP Reference IMG: -> Materials management
-> Purchasing
-> Environment data
-> Maintain number ranges
In function "Number ranges for services management", you define a number range for the service package and for the entry sheet.
Then you have to insert an interval in each case for the previously specified number ranges in functions "Intervals: package" and "Intervals: entry sheet".

2. Maintaining the authorizations for the acceptance of services performed.

Please refer to the release notes for 3.0A for more information. You can find the release notes in the "Help" menu.
Path in Release notes for 3.0A:
-> Materials Management
-> Purchasing
-> External services management

3. Setting up service conditions:

a) Setting up exclusion indicator:
Transaction: SM30
View : V_T686A
Application: MS
Copy the settings from client 0.

b) Copying condition types:
Path in SAP Reference IMG:
-> Materials management
-> Purchasing
-> Functions
-> Maintain conditions for services
Select transaction: Condition types
Copy the condition types from client 0.

c) Copying condition schema:
Path in SAP Reference IMG: see condition types under b)
Select transaction: Schema for services
Copy procedures MS0000 and MS0001 from client 0.
Then select the two procedures and perform the "Control" function.
On the following overview screen you copy all levels from client 0.
You do this for procedure MS0000 and procedure MS0001.

4. Copying messages:

a) Message types:

Path in SAP Reference IMG:
-> Materials management
-> Purchasing
-> Functions
-> Messages
-> Output control
-> Message types
Define message types for service entry sheets.
Copy the data from client 0.

b) Message schema:

Path in SAP Reference IMG: see output types under a)
Define message schemas for service entry sheets.
Copy the data from client 0.
Copy as well the control data of the schema from client 0.

Additional key words

SE316